Indian Ocean studies
Subtitle: cultural, social, and political perspectives
By: edited by Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal.
Contributors: Moorthy, Shanti.; Jamal, Ashraf.
Series: Routledge Indian Ocean series -- 6
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780415803908
Subjects: Indian Ocean -- Study and teaching (Higher); Indian Ocean Region -- Study and teaching (Higher); Islands of the Indian Ocean -- Study and teaching (Higher); Indian Ocean Region -- Intellectual life; Indian Ocean Region -- Social conditions; Indian Ocean Region -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: New conjunctures in maritime imaginaries / Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal; title: Fabulation : flying carpets and artful politics in the Indian Ocean / Stephen Muecke; title: The Indian Ocean and the making of outback Australia : an ecocultural odyssey / Haripriya Rangan and Christian Kull; title: Contesting history : have we ever been cosmopolitan? / Shanti Moorthy; title: Destined to disappear without a trace : gender and the languages of creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean / Fernando Rosa Ribeiro; title: Commerce, circulation, and consumption : Indian Ocean communities in historical perspective / Lakshmi Subramanian; title: Shared hopes, new worlds : Indians, Australians & Indonesians in the boycott of Dutch shipping, 1945-1949 / Heather Goodall; title: "Signs of wonder" : the postmortem travels of Francis Xavier in the Indian Ocean world / Pamila Gupta; title: Kuo Pao Kun's descendants of the eunuch admiral and the myth of modern Singapore / Susan Philip; title: "The great ocean of idealism" : Calcutta, the Tagore circle, and the idea of Asia, 1900-1920 / Mark Ravinder Frost; title: "Is it the same sea as back home"? : transformative complicities as traveling tropes in fictions from Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and South Africa / Miki Flockemann; title: Making home on the Indian Ocean rim : re-locations in South African literatures / Meg Samuelson; title: A traveling science : anthropometry and colonialism in the Indian Ocean / Rochelle Pinto; title: Whiteness in golden Goa : Linschoten on phenotype / Arun Saldanha; title: Power and beliefs in Reunion Island / Christian Ghasarian; title: Through magical flowers : tourism and Creole self-fashioning in La Reunion / David Picard; title: Black bag / Ashraf Jamal; title: Telling and selling on the Indian Ocean rim / Ashraf Jamal; title: Post-orientalism / Stephen Muecke.